Hunter had been shooting just 20.5percentt in these playoffs, suffering through what Karl had called a "mental, physical and spiritual slump".
Their manager, Joe Maddon, an aging hipster and baseball savant, has led the team through the slumps, injuries, and mental fatigue inevitable in a long season, deftly pacing the players for a playoff run.
One in five Finns born in 1987 have been treated for psychiatric or mental disorders, associated with the economic slump in Finland in the 1990s.
Exercise slumps, relationship ruts, and overall mental funks happen to the best of us.
He has been unable to keep his mental focus long enough to break out of his slump and enjoy the game.
His needs were twofold: He needed to unravel the mechanical problems that proliferated while he tried to solve his floundering swing, and he had to reset a mental approach that became muddled while he spiraled into his slump.
Sports Announcer No. 1 will invariably discuss how Jeter is in a slump, suggesting that, because of some problem either physical or mental, his chance of getting a hit is somewhere less than his usual 31 percent.
Whenever I see an active addict slumped over in an alleyway, or see someone with obvious mental health issues being ostracized on the subway, I quietly remind myself, "There but for the grace of God, go I".
Thomas, the Knicks' coach and president, was not asked to explain Eddy Curry's troubling slump, Zach Randolph's waning impact, Jamal Crawford's shot selection, the Knicks' woeful defense, their apparent mental frailty or, worst of all, their 6-14 record.
His fight to help her remember their blissful time together will see him slump sobbing to the floor, punch the ex at a wedding and deliver an earnest voiceover on love ("physical, mental and every other kind").
